The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the mind, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit. Life isn't black and white, it's gold.

The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the mind, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit. Life isn't black and white, it's gold.

“The headlines say ‘shortage,’ and that isn’t going to be the case,” says Steve Meyer, a consulting economist for the National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council, as well as the president of Paragon Economics in Adel, Iowa. “We aren’t going to see bacon lines. You’ll still be able to get it.”

Still, retail prices will rise next year and are expected to set new records. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts a rise of 2.5 to 3.5 percent, after an 8.5 percent rise in 2010 and a 1.0 to 2.0 percent rise this year.